Reflections are great because they look backward and move forward at once. There is a kind of capturing in the thinking about the project, as well as an extension in articulating that thinking through the performance of a composition.
[00:28]
[Hannah Easley's "This is What I Did in My Portfolio" plays on screen.]
[00:40]
This holds true for the genre of the this is what I did in my class essay. Here, Hannah reflects on two of her projects in the course, a mashup and a screeencast. And she composes the reflection as a screen cast.
[01:15]
The reflection has familiar elements like explorations of literacies and discussions of composing moves. But it also sings.
[01:45]
And it connects with a viewer. It plays.
It extends "this is what I did" to "this is what I felt. And it offers a rhetorical awareness as it reflects on its own composed nature.
[02:17]
I like little serendipity when I teach. Make that a lot. I like to be surprised. I like the way that this reflection embraces that. It zooms out, thinking about the way that learning itself is an improvisation, learning itself--a performance.
[02:53]
[End of Hannah Easley's "This is What I Did in My Portfolio." The rest of video fades out with music and on screen views of early invention materials for this project.]